Monk Gyatso + Lightning Greaves + Urza's Incubator

3-card combo · W

Verdict

Yes — this 3-card loop generates infinite ETB and LTB triggers for any creature type Urza's Incubator names, at zero mana per iteration.

Cards required: 3
Cheapest stack total: $6.51
Color identity: W
Popularity: 1,312 decks
Format: Commander

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Lightning Greaves equips to a nontoken creature, triggering Monk Gyatso to airbend it into exile; the equip fizzles with no legal target, and Urza's Incubator reduces the creature's cost to zero so it returns to the battlefield immediately. The loop demands only that the bounced creature share a type with Incubator's named type, which any tribal Commander shell can guarantee trivially.

Recipe

How it works

Prerequisites

You control another nontoken creature. Urza's Incubator is naming one of the additional nontoken creature's types.

Steps

Activate Lightning Greaves's equip ability by paying , targeting another nontoken creature you control.
Monk Gyatso triggers, airbending the targeted creature.
The Lightning Greaves ability fizzles due to no longer having a legal target.
Cast the creature from exile by paying due to Urza's Incubator.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count

Variations

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

The combo produces no damage or card draw on its own — it needs a payoff like Purphoros, God of the Forge or Impact Tremors, but both are red and outside white's color identity, so Altar of the Brood or Corpse Knight are the realistic white-legal kill conditions. Any nontoken creature that costs zero after the Incubator reduction works as the loop piece, so tutoring for the creature type is often easier than finding Monk Gyatso himself.